Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hannibal Brooks (1969) Michael Winner, Oliver Reed, John Alderton, Michael J. Pollard, Comedy, Adventure, War, Action
In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who’s obsessed with escaping. Read More »
Am Abend nach der Oper / In the Evening After the Opera (1945) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer, Robert Lindner, Drama, Romance
This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. Read More »
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976) Chi-Hwa Chen, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Kang Chin, Action
Jackie witnesses his father’s death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Read More »
La symphonie pastorale (1946) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Drama
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. Read More »
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman, Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Romance, Western
Reno and Turner are partners who robbed the express in Monterey. But when Turner wants to leave the partnership, Reno shoots him and leaves him for dead. Read More »
Désirée (1954) Henry Koster, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte Read More »
Gaolbreak (1962) Francis Searle, Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone, David Kernan, Crime, Drama
A family of burglars and safecrackers plan a heist at a jewelry store. When one of the family–who is the safecracking expert–gets arrested and jailed, they hatch a plan to break him out so he can take part in the robbery.
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Lee Jae-sueui nan / The Uprising (1999) Kwang-su Park, Eun-ha Shim, Jung-jae Lee, Gye-nam Myeong, Drama
In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. Read More »
The Jayhawkers! (1959) Melvin Frank, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Romance, Western
Shortly before the start of the American Civil War rebel Kansas leader Luke Darcy dreams of a new independent Republic of Kansas. Read More »